Speech

Forms Functions and Features

TAP

Tone- Language/ Word Choice, Style and Register, formal or informal, consoling or stern

Audience- Teacher, school community, public, event where you have vested interests- professional capacity

Purpose-Informative/ Persuasive/ Entertaining/ Tributary

Functions of Speech

Inform- to give audience new information OR to heighten awareness or to increase knowledge about the topic

Persuade-to change the audience’s mind about a specific issue/ to change existing beliefs (this is more challenging than merely changing the audience’s mind)/ to get audience to react and to take up action

Entertain- to entertain and amuse sometimes, to also convey a serious message

Tribute- giving thanks and praise• to pay respect and express admiration for your subject

matter• to express gratitude towards your subject matter

Forms Of Speech

• Stand-up comedic speech • Assembly speech given by school authority• Speech on stopping animal abuse, mass sales

pitch on investing in Canadian chickens• Famous historical persuasive speeches:

Churchill’s Battle of Britain speech, Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream, JFK’s Inaugural Address

• Eulogy, speech made at award ceremonies to introduce a award recipient, citations

Features

A. Rhetorical Devices

• Rhetorical questions

• Exaggeration

• Understatement

• Contrast/Juxtaposition

• Quotations from famous personalities

Features

B. Pronoun Use

Inclusive Pronoun type- we/us first person plural

I- first person singular- emphasise your views

You/ They – exclusive- second person singular/ plural pronouns- create distance

Features

C. Language/ Word Choice- Pathos/ Emotive Language

• Positive

• Negative

• Juxtaposition- terrorist, rebel, revolutionary versus freedom fighter, hero and peacemaker

Features

D. Literary Devices

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Other Devices

• Repeated starting phrases- parallel sentence structures

• Contrapuntalism- if you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

Structure

• Intro/ lead parag- purpose- state your thesis

• Body- 3 to 5 parags- SEE and Top Level Structure

• Conclusion – punchline – appeal – call to action